This Is What the US Looks Like

Monster storm covers a third of US
Posted Feb 1, 2011 3:00 PM CST
This Is What the US Looks Like
This image released by NASA shows how the snowstorm looks from space. The United States is under there somewhere.   (NASA)

What meteorologists are calling the biggest snowstorm in decades is causing chaos from Mexico to Maine. NASA—which says this "massive winter storm affecting a large portion of Great Plains and Midwest" is set to get worse—has released a satellite image in which the US is barely visible under the storm, Gizmodo reports. Much more travel disruption is expected as the monster storm system moves northeast to New England.
(More blizzard stories.)

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